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This book provides an original framework to examine how professionals control transnational issues, commonly considered the concern of organizations.
List of contents
Part I. Frames and Methods: 1. Issue control in transnational professional and organizational networks Leonard Seabrooke and Lasse Folke Henriksen; 2. In the 'field' of transnational professionals: a post-Bourdieusian approach to transnational legal entrepreneurs Yves Dezalay and Michael Rask Madsen; 3. Studying elite professionals in transnational settings Brooke Harrington 4. Networks and sequences in the study of professionals and organizations Lasse Folke Henriksen and Leonard Seabrooke; Part II. Professionals and Non-Government Organizations: 5. Contested professionalization in a weak transnational field Ole Jacob Sending; 6. The Ford Foundation: building and domesticating the field of human rights Wendy H. Wong, Ron Levi and Julia Deutsch; 7. Accounting-NGO professional networks: issue control over environmental, social and governance reporting Jason Thistlethwaite; 8. All the trader's men: professionals in international trade policymaking Matthew Eagleton-Pierce; 9. Professional activists on tax transparency Duncan Wigan and Adam Baden; Part III. Professionals and International Organizations: 10. Esteem as professional currency and consolidation: the rise of the macroprudential cognoscenti Andrew Baker; 11. Treating market failure: access professionals in global health Adriana Nilsson; 12. Professions and policy dynamics in the transnational carbon emissions trading network Matthew Paterson, Matthew Hoffman, Michele Betsill and Steven Bernstein; 13. Quasi-professionals in the organization of transnational crisis mapping John Karlsrud and Arthur Mühlen-Schulte; Part IV. Professionals and Market Organisations: 14. Global professional service firms and institutionalization James Faulconbridge and Daniel Muzio; 15. Global professional service firms, transnational organizing and core/periphery networks Mehdi Boussebaa; 16. Professional management consultants in transnational governance Bessma Momani; 17. Professional and organizational logics in internet regulation James Perry and David Kempel; 18. Conclusion: issue professionals and transnational organizing Lasse Folke Henriksen and Leonard Seabrooke.
About the author
Leonard Seabrooke is Professor of International Political Economy and Economic Sociology in the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School.Lasse Folke Henriksen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School.
Summary
This book offers an original framework to examine how professionals engage with transnational issues. Aimed at scholars and students of international relations and international organizations in political science, as well as law departments and business schools, the book examines a range of cases and outlines different methods to map professional networks.
